A total of six workers were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries and asset damage is still being assessed at America’s largest producing coal mine, the North Antelope Rochelle (NARM) complex in Wyoming, after a tornado struck the property on June 23. Full story.
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Montem Resources, who had plans to restart production at the previously abandoned Tent Mountain open-pit coal mine in Canada, has reportedly withdrawn plans and is walking away. Full story.
Read MoreNo fatalities were reported but more than 220 miners were evacuated from a coal mine in southern Russia after a smoke incident. The event occurred 2 April, underground at the Obukhovskaya operation near Zverevo in the Rostov region. Workers were at a depth of about 200 meters (650 feet). While the operator has not commented on the incident in the…
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Just days before Christmas, Teck Resources reportedly inked a deal with Conuma Resources to sell its closed Quintette coal mine in northeastern British Columbia, Canada for C$120 million. Full article.
Read MoreOfficials are reporting the deaths of 10 workers and the rescue of four others after an explosion at a coal mine in the West Sumatra province. Read full article.
Read MoreCrews at an unidentified coal mine in northwestern Pakistan recovered nine bodies and four injured individuals after a methane gas explosion on 30 November, according to reports citing government officials. An Associated Press report said the blast occurred at an operation in the Orakzai district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which is near Afghanistan. Deputy commissioner Adnan Khan told regional outlet MEHR…
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Bravus Mining and Resources, owner of the Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland’s Galilee Basin, said that it has added Mackay to its regional fly-in, fly-out network, adding to opportunities for a greater number of workers in the region. Read full article.
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A methane explosion at an ArcelorMittal coal mine in Kazakhstan on November 3 has left five dead and four others hospitalised, reported Al Jazeera. View full article.
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Norway’s state-owned coal company has extended production at its last coal mine in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago by two years to help meet industrial demand, reported Reuters. The decision reverses a plan announced in September 2021 to close Mine 7 next year as Svalbard’s main settlement moves to a permanent renewable energy source. Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani (SNSK) said it…
Read MoreEfforts to rescue 10 miners trapped underground at a coal mine in the Coahuila state of Mexico for more than a week have grown more complicated now that the operation has suffered additional flooding atop the initial water inundation. Read full article.
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